The way a mage thinks is a little different from the way people think.

Especially for business, perhaps because most mages are relatively wealthy, and they are used to burning money and magic, most mages are very insensitive to cost, but seek the most extreme.

The pursuit of the best effect, the most powerful, as for whether it is economical to do so, this is not in their range of consideration, for them, making money is not the main thing, the study of magic is important.

This is a bit like a variety of research laboratories, the results in the laboratory are often costly, and there is still a big distance from commercialization, such as a variety of super-large capacitance batteries, every once in a while there will be such a saying, which laboratory has studied super-large batteries, capacitor batteries, graphene batteries, etc., but none of them have really achieved commercialization.

And most of the magician's works are this kind of original products that have no commercial customization.

However, under the influence of Jiayi, now Yangxi also has a concept of cost, and now they see that the cost of the copier is so expensive, so they unconsciously want to improve.

Yang Xi first said: "This duplicator is almost all achieved through magic, and it is also relatively cumbersome to operate, if you can use a part of the mechanical structure instead of the rune circle, it will definitely be able to reduce the production cost and use cost." And you can add an automatic paper feeding function, which will definitely be able to greatly improve the submission efficiency. If the machine utilization rate is high, then the cost of the machine will also decrease. ”

"Yes, but I think the most important thing now is paper, now our white paper cost is less than one-twentieth of parchment, this is because it has just started production, with the increase in paper production, the cost can be further reduced, only this piece, can reduce a lot of costs. ”

March also said as he spoke, and as he spoke, he went to the side and took out the "newsprint" he had just brought.

In fact, they came here today mainly to experiment with the performance of newsprint, but when they saw the copier, they forgot about the paper for a while.

"This paper is really a good thing, and with paper, parchment is almost useless except for scrolls, and if there is paper that can make scrolls, parchment should be eliminated. ”

Ma Duo took the paper and sighed a little, "But the paper should have been around for hundreds of years, right? Why hasn't anyone thought about improving it, if it had appeared earlier, there would have been more mages now." ”

Jia Yi smiled and said: "You can write a paper to discuss this, if it can be published normally, you can also have a little arcane points, and when the time comes, it can be regarded as promoting the academy's paper." ”

It is not easy to publish such a paper if it is written, because because of the high cost of magazines, there are basically no magazines willing to publish such humanities papers, and there is no tradition of this, but if it is published together with the paper of the college, it is not impossible.

Both Jiayi and the academy have plans to publicly authorize the production of paper, but not now, it needs to be improved, and there is also a sense of wanting to determine the dominance of the academy paper.

"In fact, in addition to paper, there is room for improvement in printing, ordinary people can't use a copy machine that requires magic, and there are also engraving printing methods, if this is combined with a copy machine, it will be able to greatly improve efficiency, and not every piece of paper is achieved through copying. ”

Jed was also inspired to see that everyone was discussing so intensely, and suddenly thought of this.

There is engraving printing in this world, but it is not widely used, and it is even less used in the mage world, because the mage world publishes magazines, there are high requirements for the timeliness of typesetting and something, and the engraving is too slow, and it requires a large number of plates that are almost used once, so it is not used much.

As for the rulers of the various kingdoms, they were not so keen on the popularization of knowledge, and even printed books were relatively few, but although they were few, they did exist, but they were not popular.

Jade can know this, which can be regarded as a very rich experience.

Everyone had the idea of improving the current printing press, but having said that, they had to test the effect with the new paper they had brought in to see if it would fit the current copier.

Following the process that Jiayi explored, they first used parchment to copy a sheet, then opened the board under the copywriter, cut a piece of newsprint and put it in.

The copying speed was very fast, and I saw a burst of magic fluctuations flashing on the board, and the copying was immediately good, and March stepped forward first, opened the lid, and pulled out the paper inside.

The paper was about the size of an ordinary book, double-sided, with clear and neat handwriting, and a beautiful handwritten font on it, which was copied by March.

Although the copying speed is very fast, it takes time to put the paper every time, and there is another point, although the copying machine does not need to be engraved like engraving printing, nor does it need to pick words for scheduling like movable type printing, but someone needs to write the text that needs to be printed on the parchment paper, but it is much more convenient.

And because it is double-sided printing, the two sides of a large sheet of paper need to correspond, and if it is messy, it will be printed and scrapped.

In order to ensure accuracy, Jiayi and others cut the paper to the size of a book, then copied it on both sides, then put it together, and then cut and bound it after printing.

The printed paper is cut into a small booklet.

They did not bind, each took a piece of paper in their hands to watch, for the effect, everyone is very satisfied, but there are still some small problems, the ink on the paper that has just been printed does not dry quickly, touch it with your hands, there will be ink on your hands, and there will be stains on the paper.

"The formula of this ink still needs to be adjusted. Jia Yi looked at his slightly blackened fingers and said.

If the ink does not dry fast enough, if the paper is printed in large quantities, the paper will be layered on top of each other, resulting in upper and lower staining.

But if it's not demanding, it's barely enough now.

After the printing was completed, Jia Yi looked at the copy machine in front of him, but he was thinking about movable type printing.

Of course, it doesn't have to be movable type printing, and the magical world doesn't necessarily have to develop movable type, as long as the cost can be reduced.

He suggested to the rest: "You say, what if we made all these letters, and made them into many parts, and each page we selected them to form a single page, and then printed them? ”

"That's too time-consuming, isn't it?" Jed's words made Jia Yi stunned, is movable type printing still time-consuming?

Jade continues, "It takes a lot of time to find a word and then type it, and what if there is an illustration? I think it would be better to find a way to use copying to transfer the characters to the wooden board, and then etch the wooden board by spell, so that the time to make the engraving is greatly reduced, and the use of engraving printing can also reduce the use of spells. ”

Jed's words gave Jia Yi a new idea, if you can automatically make engraving, it is also a good way, especially for some classic books with a large printing volume, the use of engraving can be used many times, and you can take it out and use it when you need it, but you need to keep it well to avoid damage.

However, this method requires the invention of a new spell, and for the newspaper that Jiayi envisioned, that is, every issue of the newspaper needs an engraving, and the cost of making a large number of engravings cannot be ignored.

"It would be nice to be able to automatically recognize spells in movable type, so that you can also use spells for typesetting, which is also time-saving. Kaichi said.

One of the advantages of movable type is that it can be speeded up by using a lot of labor, which in this day and age is still far less expensive than magic.